New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- The AI tool we unlocked today is: Microsoft 365 Copilot's Scanned Document Search

Here is a pain point almost every professional has quietly accepted as normal: the moment a document becomes a scan, a screenshot or a photo, it disappears from search.

A scanned contract sits in a Word file, a table gets pasted in as a screenshot in Excel, a whiteboard gets photographed into a PowerPoint deck, and from that point on, Ctrl+F is useless. The only way to find anything is to open file after file and skim manually.

Copilot Chat now closes that gap. It can read scanned PDFs and the text inside embedded images across Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and surface answers directly from content that was previously invisible to any ...